The JMRCA run Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals are being held this weekend. The Friday test day seemed to be rained out judging by the images, but it gave Kimihiko-yano.net the opportunity to take lots of pictures of the track and the competing cars. We will report on this results of this event as we get them.
In the meantime you can check out some of the pictures after the jump… content
Neo-Buggy reports that Ian Haley took another convincing TQ and win at the Telstra WRC Rally RC event. But more importantly this event was held during the World Rally event and attracted former RC racer and WRC World Champion Petter Solberg, who joined in, along with top WRC young gun Dani Sordo. The picture above has nothing to do with either driver but its better to look at the Miss WRC girls than a middle aged Norwegian and a young Spaniard.
Solberg drove CEN driver Paul Cornwall’s car for a while; who with Haley ended up on the podium with the Miss WRC girls!! Petter Solberg was himself at the age of 13 a keen RC Racer; back in the day he won his fair share of events in Norway, before moving onto bigger and faster cars….;)
You can see a picture of Petter Solberg with Paul Cornwall after the jump… content
Neo-Buggy have the scoop on UK National Champion Dave Crompton’s move from Byron to O’Donnell fuels for the upcoming season.
We can reveal that 8 time UK Champion and 2006 Euros Pole sitter David Crompton will be using O’Donnell fuel from now onwards. David used Byron fuel to great success in the 2006 season.
Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]
French site Petit RC have a post on their site showing lots of French tracks photographed from space. The quality of the images aren’t great, probably limited by the zoom available in the mapping program used, but it’s still interesting none the less.
You can view these tracks from space here.
Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]
Xray have a report on their site from team driver Martin Lissau concerning his first race with their new T2007. Driving the car for the first time at the event, Martin ended the race in second position.
The big battle was between Steen Graversen, Jonas Kaerup, and myself. It was very very close, with the top 3 cars separated by only 2 seconds in qualification.
You can read Martin’s full race report here.
Souce: Xray [teamxray.com] Image: RaceRC [racerc.dk]
Yesterday we reported on the TORC series from Bedworth, in which we noted that the F2 class had been taken by Elliot Harper. Well the overall TORC series championship went to Ian Whittingham who, driving a Grainger special edition Yokomo, took the title for a second year running.
He was already uncatchable after the Stafford round in August, with three rounds still to go. Ian finished the season with another strong performance taking TQ and overall second place at the Bedworth meeting.
Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]
 
At the recent iHobby Expo in Chicago, the boys over at 4wdrc.com made the next instalment in their ongoing podcast series. This time the podcast contains an interesting interview with top US off roader, and Horizon Hobbies employee, Adam Drake. If you have 12 minutes of your life to spare, you can have a listen and get an insight into Adam himself as well as the new products released at the event by Horizon, including the new 1/36th scale Micro-T that we covered previously.
Listen to the podcast here (WMV).
Source: 4wdrc.com [4wdrc.com]
Image: Steel City Hobbies [steelcityhobbies.com]
You can view the Video with this link
I wanted to report on this earlier but decided i should leave it for a quieter day. Well that day has come. This video is a TV advertisement from the guys at the RC Pro Series over in the US. It will be shown on Regional TV and it promotes the upcoming Nitro Off Road finals that are being held at the Rockford Metro Arena in Illinois on November 6th – 12th (altough the video says 9th to 11th?).
The TV ads start on October 23rd on WIFR 23 on the Morning Show, during the Letterman Show and during According to Jim. WIFR will be doing a Monster Truck giveaway from Losi as well as tickets to the event. Myself and one of the Team Losi guys will be on the Morning Show monday November 6th to talk about the event and show off some cars.
This is one well promoted event as they also have a radio advertising campaign in place, leading up to event.
Check out the RC Pro Series website for more info.
